Women’s rights activists and many thousands of their supporters held a fifth day of protests across Poland on Monday, defying pandemic restrictions to express their opposition to a top court ruling that tightens the predominantly Catholic nation’s already strict abortion law. |
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Poland’s new education minister has promised to fight the “dictatorship of left-liberal views” that he says “have dominated higher education” and begun to “penetrate schools” as well. Przemysław Czarnek, an MP from the ruling national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, was this week sworn in as the education and science minister. |
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— U.S. government officials are putting an early end to a study testing an Eli Lilly antibody drug for people hospitalized with COVID-19 because it doesn’t seem to help. — Coronavirus cases increasing in states Trump needs the most - the Midwest. — World Series played at a neutral site in front of.... |
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MOSCOW -- Russia’s foreign minister has self-isolated after contact with a person who has tested positive for coronavirus. The Foreign Ministry says Sergey Lavrov was feeling well but will postpone his official trips and meetings. It didn’t identify the infected person. |
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Boris Johnson is hinting at a U-turn after public outrage at his refusal to help hungry kids in the holidays. The Prime Minister faced fury after 322 Tory MPs voted down a bid to continue free school meal vouchers to Easter 2021. Now he may be budging after pressure from bishops, peers, campaigners, his own party and of course, Marcus Rashford. |
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AREA FORECAST: The Owens Valley / The town of Mammoth Lakes TUE OCT 27 2020 WEATHER DISCUSSION: The Post Frontal winds settle down today and the temperatures will be on the rise, as high pressure from the West kicks that dry Candian trough to the East. We have been amazingly warm this season, so this cold snap is quite a shock. |
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Local homelessness charities in Kelowna, B.C., are acting quickly to open two emergency winter shelters downtown earlier than last year before freezing temperatures return to the area. Starting Monday, Metro Community will reopen the 39-bed Welcome Inn at 1265 Ellis St. |
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By Nyashadzashe Ndoro. The Uebert Angel Foundation continues to deliver on its USD$1million coronavirus relief aid, with the latest being Mhangura on Sunday where they donated mealie meal to thousands of people affected by the ravaging drought and effects of Covid-19 lockdown in the mining area. |
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ROME — The decision by Pope Francis to forgo wearing a mask has been noticed by a member of the Vatican’s coronavirus commission. The Rev. Augusto Zampini acknowledged Tuesday the 83-year-old pope, who is missing part of a lung because of an illness in his youth, is at high risk for complications of the virus. |
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The story of JoAnn Matouk Romain has bewildered true crime fans and amateur detectives for a decade. JoAnn, a middle aged churchgoer from the US, disappeared in January 2010. She vanished after attending a prayer service at a Catholic Church near Lake St Clair in Grosse Point, Michigan. |
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Francis has courted some criticism for declining to wear a mask when indoors. Vatican regulations call for masks indoors and out when social distancing cannot be guaranteed. On Saturday, the pope met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and neither they nor anyone in the Spanish delegation wore masks. |
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